CVE-2023-29343 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting SysInternals Sysmon for Windows. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a local, low-privileged attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog, its EPSS score indicates a higher than average likelihood of exploitation, and it has received some media coverage and community discussion. There are no public exploit modules available at this time.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 14.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_sysmon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0, < 14.16CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_sysmon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.